If census estimates show that Catahoula Parish is continuing to lose population, as it seems likely to do, there is another alternative to increase the efficiency of our government: consolidation. Consolidated government combines the administration of both urban and rural areas of the county (or parish in our case) under one governing body.

learned that one of the supplements advertised on TV is made with grapefruit, which I cannot have. This is a time to be cautious.

I have recounted before the numerous ways—fearful of the Climate Change Religionists and the Green New Deal lunatics—that the Biden Administration has undermined and damaged the U.S. oil and gas industry, including in Louisiana.

There should be an Oscar for “Best Police Jury Meeting”. It’s still early but the meeting this Monday, February 12, 2024, would surely get the first nomination of the year. It was almost an hour and a half long (about average for the Town of Jonesville’s monthly gathering), and with a packed house. In fact, it might have been the best in what has been nearly a decade (well, seven and a half years) of my covering the Police Jury. The reasons for my high estimation of this past Monday’s assembly unfolded almost by accident.

Where did the time go? Why does it still hurt? Why does it remain fresh in my mind? These are Ws of grief that I ask myself daily since Millie has been gone. Seven years have come and gone, and I still find myself wanting to call her, finding clothes for her when shopping and wishing she were with me when I travel.

States are sovereign entities in their own right and have the unquestioned authority to repel an invasion in their states, made even more critically necessary when the federal government has so abjectly failed in its responsibility to safeguard the nation's borders.

Help is on the way! What a wonderful concept of safety and life, especially when we are in a desperate situation, perhaps fighting for our lives. Well, that is soon to be just a cliché for the residents of Catahoula Parish. Beginning Thursday, February 15, 2024, Catahoula Parish will no longer have ambulance service.

This is a column about local politics and not my personal life. Since my life is somewhat less exciting than a turnip patch, you are probably grateful for that. However, I’m making an exception this week because the two, my personal life and politics, collided on my kitchen floor. There, on the helpful instruction of the 911 operator, I had lowered my unconscious wife to keep her from choking to death in case she vomited while down and out like a light.

I found it interesting to read this week that Wall Street investors are “conceding that former President Donald Trump will likely win the GOP primary for the 2024 presidential race.” (The Epoch Times, Jack Phillips, 1/24/2024). These remarks were made just before Trump won the New Hampshire primary. He also won Iowa earlier this month with strong support from his working class and middle-class base which has not been diminished in their support by the politically motivated law-fare being waged against him.

Former Police Jury president Harold Sones said he doesn’t really like the idea, but I was so taken by his mention of the possibility that I forgot to ask him what his objection might be. I’m talking about an emergency services tax district that would combine the financing and administration of both fire protection and ambulance service. You can decide what you think about the idea of restructuring how we provide for both ambulances and volunteer fire protection.